What If We Could Spread Compassion Like a Disease?

What If We Could Spread Compassion Like a Disease?

At a compassion education conference in 2018, Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa described new scientific evidence on the effectiveness and benefits of compassion training. Why, he asked, despite the growing popularity of this training, were we not seeing much of an impact in the world? Compassion did not seem to be “scaling up.” “If we want to make a real change,” he said, “we have to change institutions . . . . We need to seek expertise and advice…